Slow Boot Since Installing OS X 10.10.3

Open System Preferences, select Startup Disk, and make sure your internal drive is selected as the startup disk. That probably is the problem.

Thank you so much, that fixed the problem right away. I had contacted apple support and they recommended resetting the PRAM and that did nothing at all.

Quiet that did it. To be fair if my first suggestion had not work I would have suggested Resetting PRAM and repeating the startup disk fix

Thanks for asking this. I was a bit discouraged as I just bought a new March 2015 MacBook Pro with Touch Force trackpad. One of the reasons that I got rid of my mid-2009 MacBook Pro was that it took forever and a day to startup (like 3 minutes). After updating to 10.10.3, my new MacBook pro was taking about 5 times or more longer than out of the box to startup ... It restimulated my feelings about the old MacBook restart issues.

It seems that Apple should account for these hiccups and take care of them automatically with each update. How should we know that we need to go into settings and reset the startup disk. I just thought that I was going to have to accept a slower and slower startup with each OSX update.

This was an odd bug, even we vets were surprised by it. I only had a clue because I have a desktop with multiple boot disks and on occasion the chosen boot drive won't be available So I've seen it before. And to be fair to beta testers, if you pay attention to certain websites that have the word rumor in their name, the shipping 10.10.3 was a slightly different version from the last beta which might have been part of the issue. The recovery update might also have played a role.

Thank you! You added hours to my life! That was an easy fix.

Awesome! I was having trouble with this aswell! It worked!

may i ask a follow up question?. After os x recovery update 10.10.3, even my macbook pro is taking like 10 -15 seconds to show up the login screen .

As per the suggestion, SystemPreferences-> Startup disk, i only see " MACHINOTOSH HD OS X,10.10.3" but i do not see "Internal Drive" as suggested.

Thanks!

Macintosh HD is the internal drive

thanks!. That helped.

I was feeling in the same way.

THAT WORKED WELL WITH ME,, THANKS

thank you it worked for me too 😉

Thank you, that fixed the problem right away.

Thanks so much to oliver.s for thinking to ask and to dwb for the answer! Thought I was going mad as it never occurred to me a minor version update would slow down my computer so much, so I wondered what I had done to "break" it. This was easy fix and worked - back to new super-Macbook speediness now!! 🙂